The Fire-Chasing Herrscher Who Destroyed the World

Falling, falling, endless, as if there is no end to the fall.

Until the end, there are no benchmarks for up, down, left, and right, and even the boundaries between falling and flying are blurred.

When he reacted, his body and consciousness seemed to be blurring and collapsing.

Don't know why I am here.

I don't know why I became like this.

I don't even know who I am anymore.

"Ah, that's right. Who allowed you, a stupid human being, to have so many names? Tsk - Siren, Second Herrscher, K423, Kiana Kaslana. However, a name is just a title. , You won’t abandon [yourself] because of this, right? In that case, being an opponent would be too boring.”

The uninhibited and disdainful voice sounded at the right time, turning into a golden ribbon, tying up... another self that was falling endlessly in the darkness.

"Xi... Xilin, this is..."

"I don't care what your situation is now. I order you humans to wake up quickly. There is a very interesting farce waiting for you. I don't want to miss it!"

"farce?"

Kiana Kaslana opened her eyes, but there was only deep darkness in front of her, and a golden thread falling from the sky and tied around her waist.

"What's the meaning……"

"Hey. I'm too lazy to talk nonsense with you. Just go and see for yourself and find out!"

The golden thread trembled, and Kiana felt her waist tighten, and then her whole body flew upwards quickly——

Faster and faster, faster and faster, faster and faster, so fast that Kiana almost felt like something was leaving her body, until finally, the only light connected by the golden thread came to her.

Kiana Kaslana opened her eyes, and what greeted her was an extremely strange purple sky. Blue-gray stones were pieced together into a circular staircase to surround herself in the center. Patterns of different styles were carved on the stones. , there are neat geometric patterns, square and square patterns, and round and plump flowers. Naturally, abstract and unrecognizable patterns are also indispensable.

This is where? It's like a mini Colosseum, or a deserted and absurd theater.

Looking far away, you can see the gray-white mist through the edge of the circular stone staircase. Trying to break through the fog, you can see the ridiculously high Gothic-style spire - it is really weird, and the whole thing can really be seen. It's called Gothic architecture, but the height below the spire is not in line with Gothic architecture. It's like... it's like a 100-meter-long building stretched four or five times and then covered with It has a Gothic-style exterior.

It's not ugly, but it makes people feel a little uncomfortable after staring at it for a long time.

Yes, uncomfortable.

It wasn't until the fifth second after she opened her eyes that Kiana felt the restraints coming from her hands and feet.

He struggled a little, but other than the pain in his wrists and ankles being strangled by the cold iron chains, nothing came of it.

Moreover, the posture was not suitable for exerting force - Kiana was restrained in a kneeling position, and the chains of the handcuffs and legcuffs seemed to be nailed into the ground by the cross-like metal rod behind her, making it impossible to move at all.

"In that case, let's use the power of the Herrscher of the Void - eh!"

"Pfft-hahahaha!"

A laugh full of bad taste rang in her mind, and confusion and dissatisfaction surged into Kiana's heart at the same time, but before she could leave her mouth, there was only one sentence left - "How could this happen?"

"Isn't this normal? In any case, I am the real Herrscher of Space. In this place that is independent of the original world, the power of space actively chose me when it felt that its body was in crisis, and It’s not you as its owner, this is a normal thing.”

"You - does all this have to do with you?"

Kiana's voice was naturally filled with anger, but more importantly, it was disappointment.

"Tch. I'm not talking about Kiana, you really should read more books. Even the most basic Chinese reading comprehension is so poor."

"You...what did you say?"

Instinctively, Kiana raised questions first, and then, belatedly, Kiana fell into a state of mumbo-jumbo.

Biting her lips, she quickly recalled the words of the Second Herrscher - "[When you feel that your body is in crisis], that is to say, you didn't expect this to happen at the beginning."

"uh-huh."

The Second Herrscher made a frivolous and meaningless hum. Kiana waited for two or three seconds, but did not wait for the next step.

So she could only continue following the guess she had thought of at that moment:

"So, you met... her again later, and then you joined forces? No, you probably don't like this sneaky method, and you won't condescend to join forces with someone who does such a thing."

"Tsk, I didn't expect it. I'm stupid, but you know me quite well compared to the beginning."

"Stop talking nonsense! Although I hate to say this, since you and that guy are not the same, then help me untie the chains quickly!"

There are some signs of being unreasonable in her words, but if you can look into Kiana's heart, you will find that she is much happier than expected.

However, she didn't get the response she expected.

"Oh? Help you? Why should I help you?"

"Why? No matter who the power flows to, your and my existence depend on this body. Is there anything to say about this?"

"Well, that's true, but I - it doesn't matter."

"ha?"

"I've said it before, I just want to enjoy the farce that's going to happen next as an audience. If I randomly interfered with the fate of the protagonist, I wouldn't be able to see such an interesting drama. As for the body? It doesn't matter, it really doesn't matter. Unlike you, I have a reason to live like saving the world. You have also seen with your own eyes that the god who is my last obsession has also betrayed me. From now on, saving the world or destroying the world has nothing to do with me. Just want to have fun."

"you--"

Kiana was furious for a moment, but she couldn't help but feel extremely sad for the Second Herrscher. But she still felt that she seemed to have overlooked something. However, just when she was about to follow the touch in her heart and follow the pictures, the annoying guy coughed lightly and gave a reluctant reminder - —

"Hey, she's here. Get ready, the fun is about to begin. Tsk, tsk, tsk, I didn't expect it to be such a bloody plot from the beginning...hehehehe..."

Kiana's brows couldn't stop twitching. The idiotic laughter in her mind was really unpleasant. But as the laughter stopped suddenly, the footsteps that were born out of thin air in the dead silence seemed too harsh. .

"Ta-ta-ta-"

Kiana wanted to turn her head to see the person, but the chain restricted the range of her twisting, and she could not see directly behind her.

She could only listen hopelessly as the footsteps came from far to near, from fast to slow, and finally stopped behind her.

A pair of cold palms pressed against her cheeks, and her index and middle fingers gently clasped her eyes - Kiana couldn't help but tremble. She was not afraid of fighting, but she was afraid of this feeling of powerlessness, especially now. , as long as the person behind her applies a little force, her blue eyes can be squeezed out of her sockets.

"Hmm~"

The person behind her took a breath of pleasure, and the slightly cold air flowed over Kiana's earlobe. Before she could taste the numbing feeling, she only felt her eyes tightening, and the person's index and middle fingers began to exert slight force.

"Ka-ka-ka-"

"Pfft——"

Just before Kiana felt that her eyes would burst out with a pop, the person behind her suddenly started laughing.

The cold fingers left her eyes, slid all the way down, gently caressed her cheek, then parted her lips, and gently massaged her teeth with the pads of his fingers.

"Oh, I really didn't expect that Kiana, who is fearless, was so frightened that her teeth chattered just now? Did I hear it wrong? Come on, try again!"

A familiar voice, an unmistakable voice. This time, it was no longer just the teeth that were trembling, but Kiana's entire body.

But the person hugging Kiana from behind seemed to gain hard-won pleasure from her appearance. She couldn't help but go further, prying open Kiana's teeth with her fingers, and stuffed her fingers into Kiana's Between his back molars, he put his lips to Kiana's ear again and said word by word:

"Come - bite - me - ah!"

The blast-like air flow made the eardrums hurt, and it was also accompanied by fear. Logically speaking, it would not be an exaggeration for Kiana to accidentally bite off the finger at this time, but for some reason, her body was resisting instinctively. His whole body was trembling wildly, but his teeth didn't move at all.

"Oh...it's so boring. I originally wanted to show Kiana something fun, but why are you so uncooperative!"

In a tone of annoyance and pity, the person behind him pulled his fingers out from between Kiana's teeth, and thoughtfully smeared the sticky saliva on Kiana's face.

Kiana tilted her head in disgust, and the hands did not make things difficult for her anymore. They just slid onto her shoulders, squeezed them hard, and then took them back.

After that, the figure who was a little strange to Kiana, but could also be said to be familiar, made a semicircle from behind and walked up to her.

"Keep your head up."

The familiar voice suddenly became rough, but essentially it was still the familiar voice.

Kiana's eyes narrowed hard. After hearing the other party's order, she lowered her head as if to resist, so low that she could only see the toes of the other party - maybe this was not resistance, but just didn't want to see. Just to that familiar face.

"Alas...why do you all like to do such meaningless things?"

Lifting her toes, she hooked Kiana's chin and raised it slightly. Kiana finally saw the face full of teasing.

"[Doing meaningless things], aren't you the same? We are all here, there is no need to pretend to be Wendy anymore!"

"Tsk!"

The green eyes trembled, and then quickly moved to the side.

Wendy's tone no longer had the previous temptation, the previous laziness, nor the previous confidence, although it was only at this moment:

"Why do you think I'm pretending to be Wendy?"

"?"

Wendy held Kiana's cheek again, but this time, her tone was a little more serious.

"Kiana, I am Wendy, no one is pretending."

"This is impossible!"

Kiana fiercely denied the possibility that the existence in front of her was Wendy, even more fiercely than when she denied that she was the Second Herrscher.

She tried with all her strength to break away from the chains that bound her, but this was destined to be meaningless and fruitless. Only a hint of sadness remained in Wendy's eyes.

"Nothing is impossible. I took advantage of your trust and captured you from the heavily protected Anti-Entropy Salt Lake City Base. It was me, the former A-level Valkyrie Wendy. At this moment, I am one thousandth of Wendy who has received divine revelation."

"You...what are you talking about! Senior Wendy would never do such a thing! The real Senior Wendy, even after going through such cruel experiments, she also tried hard to fight against the Honkai after becoming a Herrscher. She didn't even attack us when we were unconscious... How could such a Senior Wendy... How could she..."

"Don't you understand, Kiana? I am still a Herrscher now."

"Ah——"

Wendy's forehead was pressed against Kiana's, and her eyes, which were shining with blue light, were displayed to Kiana without reservation.

But in the blink of an eye, the remaining tenderness disappeared without a trace, and Wendy's smile was only filled with joy and teasing:

"Ah, that's right. You may not know how you got here yet?"

"I..."

"It's better to tell you. What is this called - let you die clearly?"

"..."

"It's not a complicated plan. God has given me the power of wind and space again. Although it is only one thousandth of what it used to be, it is just within the range that my body can control. You didn't expect that the power of wind can also change the reflection and refraction of light, thereby achieving the effect of optical invisibility. In other words, the anti-entropy monitoring will not be able to capture anything, and will only think that you disappeared suddenly.

"Of course, Dr. Mei, who has experienced the last era, will probably think of me soon. But we have also prepared enough smoke bombs for this - didn't expect that Miss Guinevere is also one of us. "

"How...how could it be..."

"Why not? "

Wendy smiled and tilted her head. That smile might contain many kinds of emotions, but there was no warmth at all.

"Although I have only met her a few times, those few times when you brought her to see me. Perhaps because I felt the same way, I saw through the distortion and darkness in her heart at the first sight. You know, what that child wants is very simple, so simple that even I feel ashamed of myself - she just wants everyone to see her efforts, and then, praise her and love her, she will feel satisfied.

"In a sense, she should be a child who deserves to be loved, cared for, and enjoys beauty by everyone. But she seems to never get the satisfaction that can be obtained so easily. Therefore, beauty is distorted, love is distorted - it's that simple, so what is impossible? It's better to say that you spent a full six months, but no one can see through this, which is enough to make me feel [impossible]."

Kiana's lips moved twice, and suddenly, her cheeks became red due to excitement. She opened her mouth and wanted to say something, but in an instant she felt difficulty breathing, and her vision was dim, so she could only breathe heavily.

Wendy didn't urge her, but just looked at her silently, waiting for any words she was about to blurt out.

After a while, Kiana's breathing gradually calmed down, she raised her head again, looked directly into Wendy's eyes, hoping that she could see even the slightest wavering in the next conversation.

"What about you, Senior Wendy?"

"..."

"The Gem of Desire has been taken out, and your legs have been...healed. If I remember correctly, you can almost participate in normal training... Why...why did you succumb to the collapse! Why did you fall into the Herrscher again!! Why did you do such a thing!!!"

Kiana's breathing became rapid again, but Wendy just looked at her calmly.

"Yes. On the surface, it is true, but Kiana, after your injuries are healed, can you treat them as if you have never been injured?"

"Uh..."

"The wound will leave scars that cannot be removed, and there will be hidden injuries under the skin that may break out at any time. Even if the body has really recovered to be exactly the same as before, the pain experienced in the experiment, those memories...cannot be erased."

"But...but you had given up before..."

"Kiana!"

This time, Wendy did not let Kiana finish her words.

"I thought you would understand. The pain of the wound will be suppressed by painkillers in a short time, just like the tenderness of Mei and Bronya at the beginning, and then the attitude of your Saint Freya towards me, which allowed me to temporarily ignore the pain of the past two years. But... when all this disappears, every time I wake up from the hospital bed, every time I fall during rehabilitation training, every time I feel the uncoordinated legs, every time I want to rest but have to be dragged to do various examinations, every time I see you running and jumping, sweating... "I still remember the pain at that time. Then, I will think, if there was no experiment of the Fourth Herrscher, I must have become the third S-class Valkyrie of Destiny. After all, it was because of this talent that I was chosen to be an experimental subject...

"Of course, you may want to say that, whether it was my intention or not, at least those who conducted cruel experiments on me have all died in the Fourth Collapse. But their death is their death, that is They should have suffered the sin, but what did I do wrong? I will continue to live with this painful memory. What did I do wrong?

"And the initiator of everything - Otto Apokalis... No, he can't be considered the initiator. Only by mastering the power of Honkai can we have the possibility of defeating Honkai. As the leader of the most powerful people on this planet, As a human being, his decision is not wrong for humanity itself. But the problem is that since he is not wrong and I am not wrong, what is wrong?”

"You can't be trying to say something like [it's this world that's wrong]. Don't bring these outdated lines from the bloody tokusatsu drama into reality."

With her mentality somewhat adjusted, Kiana said with a sarcastic smile on her lips.

Wendy wasn't angry.

"Really. So why do you think reality won't be more bloody than the reality show?"

After sighing softly, Wendy held Kiana's cheek again.

"I care about you, Kiana Kaslana. You share a fate similar to mine. We are both victims of this wrong world. So, join us."

"Join you and destroy this world?"

Wendy nodded, then shook her head.

She retracted her hands, clasped her hands in front of her chest, and said with piety and enthusiasm:

"We make a wish to the gods for a new world that can heal all wounds and calm all resentments. The gods come to us and say: If this is the case, then you will burn the old world for me."

Kiana obediently closed her mouth. It was not that she had nothing to say, but she caught a familiar flavor from Wendy's words.

She couldn't help but ask quietly in her heart:

"Hey, Siren, that god she talks about, could it be..."

"Who asked you to interrupt my performance? When can actors talk directly to the audience?"

The Second Herrscher immediately screamed nervously, but after two or three gasps, she still gave Kiana the answer:

"That's right, this tone and speaking skills are 100% Mikael's. Hehe, I suffered the disadvantage of not studying enough at that time and actually believed his lies. Now let's see, what's the use of studying too much? Press this As far as guys are concerned, there are 999 guys who believe that stuff. Tsk, are they all pigs?"

"Huh? One plus nine hundred and ninety-nine equals one thousand. What does this mean?"

"..."

The Second Herrscher didn't want to answer this stupid question.

"So, in the Tower of Babel, at the Destiny Headquarters... Kiana, who has also experienced those pains, you can definitely understand me, you can understand us, right? Come on, join us, for the new one who can heal everything. World, let us burn the old world together."

"I reject."

Kiana held her head high and had no reason to jump into it even though she knew it was a trap.

But what if it's the other way around?

Kiana's heart moved slightly - as long as she told Xilin's experience, she might be able to reverse the determination of senior Wendy who was deceived by Mikael...

However, she had just opened her mouth, and before she could say anything, she was faced with Wendy's twisted and angry face.

There was no time to say anything, Wendy directly raised her legs and put her toes into her mouth.

"Well!"

Not to mention the pungent smell of rubber and fur, the back of her head hit the cross. In pain, Kiana's mind went blank for a moment, and she had no idea what she was doing or what she should do.

"That's right, I should have thought of it earlier."

Wendy tried her best to read every word. Her neck twitched abnormally and tilted bit by bit.

"You and I are different after all. There is another consciousness in your body, and it is that consciousness that has endured the pain in your memory for you. And you... Kiana Kaslana, you are just starting from scratch and having nothing. You know what, little kid!”

"Uh!!! Uh-"

"Stop screaming! If you yell again I'll knock your teeth out!"

"..."

"Hehehe...hahahaha...forget it."

After her chest rose and fell, Wendy let out a long sigh of relief.

"Since you are going to follow this stupid old world all the way to the dark side, I have no obligation to waste my time on you anymore. Come on -"

She retracted her feet, took two steps back, opened her arms, looked up at the empty sky, and shouted loudly in an extremely excited voice:

"Welcome to the Domination Theater. This will be our first trial against the Herrscher. Look, the person kneeling in front of me is the defendant this time - Kiana Kaslana. Again Or, K423, of course, she also has a name that everyone is definitely familiar with, Xilin! "

"Click——"

Spider web-like cracks suddenly appeared on Wendy's face that was too fair due to being in the ward for many years. The cracks quickly spread all over her body, whether it was her exposed skin or clothing, her bandaged legs, or her flying blue hair...

The next moment, all the parts belonging to [Wendy], the [human], were shattered, leaving only a patch of cyan glass.

And what came out of that body was a doll that had no connection with [Wendy] - she was wearing a stage dress, with a pair of huge golden horns of unknown meaning on both sides of her short blond hair, and her eyes were Covered by a huge black eye patch, there is a strange triangular knot on the big forehead.

She put her legs together and raised her hands flat, and her joints made a "click-click" sound during this movement.

And the most disgusting thing is the head that rotates 360 degrees every time.

She split her lips, revealing her neatly arranged teeth, and then everything was frozen at this moment - she didn't say anything, and she didn't make any more movements, she just stared at Kiana with this expression. .

Silence, dead silence - nothingness began to spread in the air.

Kiana felt that this was the time for her to expose the lie of the [God], but she was speechless. It seemed that her body was resisting her to break the emptiness.

I don’t know how long it took, or maybe it was only a tenth of a second from beginning to end...

Rustling, rustling.

Nothing was eroded by the sudden noise.

The sounds of hard objects colliding, the sounds of mechanisms opening and closing, the sounds of joints twisting... the sound of wooden blocks hitting wooden blocks occupied this small and spacious space that coexisted.

There is no light, no life, no temperature, and no consciousness.

The noises were like water droplets dripping into a dark spring, causing endless ripples.

Bah-bah-bah-bah-countless sounds followed.

The sounds of hard objects colliding, the sounds of organs opening and closing, the sounds of joints twisting...

The sound of creaking, hundreds and thousands, noisy, wood blocks hitting wood blocks... resounded in this empty space.

However, Kiana could not find the source of the sound until she raised her head——

From the crimson to deep purple sky hang down a series of imperceptible silver lines. At the end of the silver lines, on one side is the unfathomable sky, and on the other side are countless, and they are exactly the same as the existence in front of them. of dolls.

Eeyah - Eeeah -

Click - click -

Under the influence of the silver thread, each puppet twisted its joints in mid-air, and landed accurately on the stone ring one by one. Looking around, Kiana was surrounded.

Eeyah - Eeeah -

Click - click -

Crunch - crunch -

The puppets' joints twisted uncoordinatedly:

Some have arms parallel to each other, one forearm twisted to point to the sky, and one arm twisted to point to the ground.

Some picked up their thighs, twisted their joints, and wrapped their knees around their necks.

Others kept twisting their hips, and their hands and feet kept twitching, as if they were completely dissatisfied with this puppet-like body.

If they have anything in common, it is that they rotate their heads 360 degrees amidst the sound of "click, click, click".

Eeyah - Eeeah -

Click - click -

Crunch - crunch -

Click it - click it -